Improvement in running-gears for carriages and wagons



H. D|BEL. Running-Gearfor Carriages a nd Wagons.

Patented April 6,1875.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

HENRY DIBEL, OF RIDGWAY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN RUNNING-GEARS FOR CARRIAGES AND WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,767, dated April 6,1875; application filed February 13, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY DIBEL, of Ridgway, in the county of Elk andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Running-Gear for Wagons; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanyin g drawing and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Wooden axles for wagons usually have the hounds attached by bolts, whichpass through both hounds and axle. This evidently weakens the axle.

My improvement is designed to avoid perforating the axle, as well as tostrengthen the whole axle in other directions, as will more fullyhereinafter appear; and it consists in securing the hounds, sand-boardor bolster, and axle together by clips, which pass around the axle andsandboard or bolster and through the hounds.

That others may fully understand my improvement, I will moreparticularly describe it.

A is the wooden axle. B is the hound; O, the sand-board; D, thethimble-skein, and E the holdingclip. The thinible-skein is constructedwith a square collar or neck, d, which extends farther up on the axlethan heretofore, so as to receive and seat the hound B. The sand-board Oor the bolster rests upon the hounds, and the clip E passes over thesandboard or bolster, and downward through the hounds, and is securedbelow the neck d by the brace-strap 6, through which the ends of theclip pass, and are secured by nuts below said brace-strap. This methodof constructing the running-gear for a wagon secures the thimble-skeinto the axle with great firmness and security without the use of boltspenetrating the axle. The sand-board or bolster extends across above theaxle, and its two ends, as well as the hounds, are firmly bound to thenecks cl d of the thinible-skein, and the latter are therefore preventedfrom spreading, and are kept in place on the ends of the axle withoutperforating or weakening the axle.

Instead of passing the clips through the brace-straps e, the ends of theclip E may pass through lugs projecting from the sides of the neck d ofthe thimble-skein; or, if desirable, two clips instead of one may beemployed, passing down on each side of the hounds, and thus avoid allperforations at the junction of the axle, hounds, and sandboard,

or bolster.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combinationof the axle, hounds, sand board, and holding-clips, the clips beingplaced around the sand-board and axle and through the hounds, as setforth.

2. An axle provided with a sand-board, O, hounds B, and clips E, allsecured by said clips firmly to the neck (1 of the thimble-skein D, asset forth.

HENRY DIBEL.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. RATHBUN, ARTHUR B. LITTLE.

